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Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre, the three storey precast book page volume beside the 1868 Orderly Room
Warrnambool, Victoria

Quantity Surveying and Construction Estimating in Warrnambool

Costimate measures bills of quantities, trade takeoffs and cost plans for Warrnambool builders. Two south west Victorian jobs sit on the record. One of them is the library on Timor Street.
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Named jobs, south west Victoria
Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre, precast book page facade and the full height glazed corner
Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre, 193 to 205 Timor Street. Architecture by Kosloff Architecture.

The south west record

Two named Warrnambool jobs, both carrying a value now. Values are bands, never exact figures. Awarded means the client won the job off our numbers.

Warrnambool
Warrnambool Library & Learning Centre, community, 2,479 m²
$20M–$30M
Warrnambool
Lyndoch & Costa House, aged care
Up to $15M
Awarded

Inside the library

What the building is, taken from the published project record. Every line below is a stated fact, not an estimate of ours.

01Three levels, integrated with a heritage building at ground floor
02Precast concrete cladding, three storey high book pages
03Approximately 2,479 m² gross building area
04Suspended precast panels anchored into post tensioned slabs
05A blackbutt coffered ceiling on the second floor
06Completed 2022
Client
Delivered through a partnership between the Victorian Government, South West TAFE and Warrnambool City Council.
Location
193 to 205 Timor Street, Warrnambool, within the South West TAFE campus.
Heritage
The second floor is independent from the 1868 Orderly building.
Blackbutt coffered ceiling above the timber library stair, book stacks and reading tables beyond
The refurbished 1868 Orderly Room, white coffered plaster ceiling above stripped masonry walls and book stacks
Left, the blackbutt coffered ceiling over the library stair. Right, the refurbished 1868 Orderly Room. Both are photographs of the finished building.
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Warrnambool, Victoria
Named here
Lyndoch & Costa House, Warrnambool Library & Learning Centre
Practice
8 years. 500+ BoQs, cost plans and full estimates. $4.5B in tenders.
Turnaround
10 business days
Engaged as
Lump sum, design and construct, ECI, cost planning
Sectors here
Aged care, community

A south west tender runs the way a city tender runs. The issued set arrives, every document is read, and the bill goes back trade by trade.

Who calls us
Commercial builders, developers and subcontractors pricing work in south west Victoria.
What we hold back
Exact figures. Both rows carry a band, never the contract sum.

What arrives

The bill comes back set out trade by trade.

A builder does not want a number. It wants a document its estimators can price straight into.

Every trade measured, in trade format. Ready to be sent to your trades for RFQ.
In the package
01 Trade summary Structured so every trade reads as its own section.
02 Breakups Clear breakups under each trade heading.
03 Returnable schedules Pricing schedules your subcontractors fill in and send back.
04 Clarification notes Every assumption and every scope gap, written down.

Seven services

One of them or all of them. Every service below has a page of its own.

Bill of Quantities
Every trade measured, in trade format. Ready to be sent to your trades for RFQ.
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Full Estimates and Contract Estimating
We sit in your estimating chair for the tender, through to submission.
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Cost Planning and Value Management
Options priced side by side, so the design decision is made on numbers.
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Trade-Specific Takeoffs
A single package measured on its own, for subcontractors pricing one trade.
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Contract and Scope Review
Documentation read for the gaps. Where it’s silent, we flag it.
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Budgeting and Benchmarking
Early budgets built off measured rates from comparable completed work.
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Early Contractor Involvement
Rated cost plans while the design is still moving, before there is a set to measure.
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Questions we get asked

Do you estimate Warrnambool projects?

Yes. Two south west Victorian jobs are on the record, in aged care and in community work.

What are the Warrnambool jobs worth?

The library is $20M to $30M. Lyndoch & Costa House is up to $15M. Values are bands, never exact figures.

How long does a bill of quantities take?

10 business days.

What comes back in the package?

A structured trade summary, clear breakups, returnable pricing schedules and clarification notes.

Can you take off a single trade?

Yes. Trade specific takeoffs are one of seven services. Subcontractors use them to price one package on its own.

Get in touch

Talk to us about a Warrnambool tender. Send the drawing set and the tender date. We will tell you what we can measure and when.

richard@costimate.com.au 0425 803 053
500+ estimates completed since 2018. 190 BoQs, cost plans and estimates in the last eighteen months.

Also serving

The same measure and the same turnaround, wherever the drawing set comes from.